Robert Pearl of Pearl Knowledge Solutions, Inc., recently attended a meeting of the NY Database Professionals Council where SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 was a large part of the topic of conversation. Read his report on the push to move business intelligence into the mainstream.
2005-01-18
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SQL Server is the best RDBMS, at least according to the current thinking at SQLServerCentral.com, and is fully capable of meeting all of your database needs. However that does not mean you should ignore other platforms. A good DBA will be aware of and perhaps skilled in other platforms and tools, including competing database systems. There has been a lot of buzz about the open source MySQL RDBMS this past year and David Poole takes a look at this server, giving you some points of comparison with
2005-01-04
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We take a look at each of the major components of a SQL Server's hardware, and examine what can be done to help maximize the performance of your hardware.
2004-12-27
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This function will calcuate the number hours between two dates excluding weekends. This allows for cycle time metrics and anything else requiring only the hours of weekdays.
2006-07-20 (first published: 2004-12-16)
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This function will calculate the number of weekdays between two dates passed. This allows for accurate tracking of "business days" for metrics in many different views.
2004-12-28 (first published: 2004-12-16)
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In The Netherlands we use bankaccountnumbers that need to comply to a test call 'elfproef'. This test evaluates the sum of each number multiplied by the position the number appears in the accountnumber. If the modulos of the sum divided by 11 is zero then the accountnumber is valid. The length of a bankaccountnumber in […]
2006-11-20 (first published: 2004-12-14)
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A short survey from Microsoft looking for feedback from users in order to try and improve the application development process. If you build applications with MS technolgies, especially SQL Server, take a moment and respond.
2004-12-10
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Inspired by a post here at SQLServerCentral, I wrote this function to calculate the number of days between two dates that are weekdays. In order to achieve this I used a common SQL table that contains a sequence of number for 1 to X. This was used as an input to the datediff function, and […]
2004-12-24 (first published: 2004-12-07)
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SQL SCRIPT TO AUDIT THE PERMISSIONS FOR OBJECTS IN A DATABASE.
2004-12-21 (first published: 2004-12-06)
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Data Sanitization is the process of making sensitive information in non-production databases safe for wider visibility. This White Paper is an overview of various techniques which can be used to sanitize sensitive production data in test and development databases.
2004-11-29
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By Chris Yates
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
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By Kevin3NF
Flexibility and Scale at the Database Level When SQL Server 2012 introduced Availability Groups...
Hello SQL Server 2022 16.0.4212.1 running on a Windows Server 2025 Std,V 24H2, SO...
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